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Initech

(100,060 posts)
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 05:47 PM Dec 2016

In a million years, I never want to hear the republicans whine about liberal media. Ever again.

It's 2016. The liberal media has been dead since the 90's. Conservatives, led by Rush Limbaugh, killed it. It was further dealt a death blow when Obama first took office by the likes of Glenn Beck and Alex Jones. They won. They own the media now. The media gave Trump a 24/7 platform and more than $500 million of free advertising. More Americans pay attention to fake news than actual news. Pizzagate has more hits than Russian hacking, which the latter is proving to be true each passing minute, while Pizzagate has been proving to be nothing more than grade A bullshit. Every book that's sold at every airport bookstore and Costco has a conservative narrative. Fox News is played in more public places than CNN. Hell even places I go for lunch play religious music more than the easy listening station. More people went to see Dinesh D'Souza's bullshit documentary "Hillary's America" than they did Michael Moore's "Where To Invade Next". Conservatives, get over the liberal media. You won. The media has a 100% conservative bias to it now. Even the president of CBS admitted that Donald Trump is good for ratings. At least let us have Stephen Colbert, OK? But the next conservative who whines about the "liberal media" is getting this:

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